Mars Lander Gets Last Chance to Send Signal

NASA announced that its frozen Phoenix Mars Lander has “one last chance” to send a signal–any signal–indicating that it survived the Martian winter.

The Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen in for the third time in four months, Space.com reports, to see if the Phoenix Mars Lander sprang to life once again.

The lander wasn’t designed to survive such a harsh arctic winter, the report said. Phoenix landed on Mars in May 2008, and lasted about two months longer than it was originally designed for. That raised hopes the lander would somehow survive the winter. But it has been a year and a half since we last heard from it.